The letter Lu Ren received was written by Ma Chao.

The beginning of the letter was inevitably a compliment to Lu Ren, and after the compliment, Ma Chao's pen immediately turned around, and he began to count Liu Bei's ...... It's not that he is talking about how Liu Bei is, but that Liu Bei is too selfish and unwilling to do his best to deal with the Western Regions Alliance, only thinking about how to preserve his own strength and then pick up cheap, so he delayed a lot of fighters.

Lu Ren smiled when he saw this, and said in his heart, did you Ma Chao's brain enter the water? Whether it's Liu Bei or Cao Pi, which one will be a fuel-efficient lamp? The current situation was simply expected by Lu Ren. If it weren't for the absolute certainty and the excellent opportunity, Liu Bei and Cao Pi would definitely not take a step forward.

Again, there are some current problems with Liu Bei, and Lu Ren still has intelligence here, so Lu Ren knows that Liu Bei will not attack again in a short period of time. Judging from the current overall situation, Liu Bei and Cao Pi went hand in hand, and it was a more appropriate strategy to use superior forces and carry out a flanking attack.

Lu Ren hadn't thought much about it when he read this, but then Ma Chao's letter made Lu Ren frown. At this time, Ma Chao said in the letter that because Liu Bei had delayed the great fighter several times, Ma Chao felt very disappointed, and after he persuaded Liu Bei several times to no avail, he wanted to ask Lu Ren to come forward, and Lu Ren would persuade Liu Bei to send troops to take Liangzhou as soon as possible.

If it was just these literal words, there would be nothing that could not be said, but then Ma Chao vaguely said in the letter that if Liu Bei was always "selfish and selfish and not considerate of the overall situation", Ma Chao would be completely disappointed in Liu Bei, because Liu Bei was "vainly taking care of the name of Xinghan and taking care of his own interests", which did not meet the requirements of the wise lord in Ma Chao's heart. Therefore, Ma Chao vaguely said that if he could, he would like to switch to Lu Ren's command and come to "go to the righteousness of the Zhongxing Han Dynasty and drive foreign enemies to the realm of Han soil...... Well, to put it simply, Ma Chao wants to get Lu Ren's economic support, and then Ma Chao will lead the children of Liangzhou to deal with the Western Regions Alliance. And Lu Ren's face sank at this time.

Finally, Lu Ren has been mixed up for so many years, and he has long understood what kind of occasion he must learn to "be happy and angry", so his face only softened immediately after sinking for a while. When he looked up again, he glanced at Ma Bi with a smile, and after saying a few polite words with a pleasant face, he called the waiter to take Ma Bi to rest and entertain him.

But as soon as Ma Bi left, Lu Ren's face immediately sank again, and the letter was handed to Xun Yu. After Xun Yu finished reading the letter, Lu Ren sneered gloomily at Xun Yu: "Xun Gong, is it that those things I did before, in the eyes of some people, they will think that I, Lu Ren, am a big fool?" ”

Xun Yu put the letter back on Lu Ren's desk, and smiled in return: "To be honest? ”

Lu Ren nodded: "Tell the truth." ”

Xun Yu played with his beard: "Well, in fact, many times, if you don't know you very well, I'm afraid you will think that you are a pedantic person." Take the incident of the Western Regions Alliance's invasion of the territory, the place where the accident happened was in Xiliang, and you are in the overseas Yizhou in the south, so you can have a relationship with you? But since the start of the war, not to mention the money, food and materials you funded to Cao's father and son, and Liu Bei, you even went to Hanzhong alone to treat Liu Bei's injuries. I ask all the people in this world, who would be stupid enough to do your part? Even if it's for the sake of the Zhongxing Han family, even the old man sometimes thinks that Yihao you are working too hard. ”

Lu Ren smiled self-deprecatingly: "Really? So I'm a fool in the eyes of a lot of people? So much so that some people think that as long as they use the banner of the Zhongxing Han Dynasty, they can easily fool me? ”

After saying this, Lu Ren looked at Xun Yu. Because Xun Yu is a staunch Xinghanist, then Lu Ren is likely to touch a sensitive nerve in Xun Yu's heart when he says such things...... To be honest, Lu Ren was also quick to talk for a while.

However, Xun Yu is far less pedantic than Lu Ren thought, otherwise he would not be able to be the top wise man in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty. Xun Yu wants to revive the Han Dynasty, but Xun Yu also stresses principles, strategies, and means, and he also looks at people, and it is a good proof that Xun Yu will change from Yuan Shao's command to Lao Cao's command. And after so many years and so many things, Xun Yu is no longer so idealistic in many things, and his views and ideas are more mature.

It can even be said that Xun Yu has long seen that Lu Ren's "revival of the Han Dynasty" is far from being so simple, but at least Lu Ren will not conflict with Xun Yu's principles on many issues, and some of Lu Ren's practices have also made Xun Yu see some possible better ways on the basis of the ideal of reviving the Han Dynasty, so Xun Yu chose to continue to follow Lu Ren...... Of course, if Lu Ren touches Xun Yu's principles and bottom line in some things, Xun Yu will do his best to stop it.

Well, that's not. Xun Yu, who was not simple in the first place, is now even more unsimple. And when facing the kind of gaze that Lu Ren handed over, Xun Yu just smiled and asked rhetorically: "Yihao, do you think Ma Chao is credible?" ”

Lu Ren also smiled, and also asked rhetorically: "Xun Gong, why did Lao Cao insist on suppressing Ma Han in Xiliang in the first place?" ”

When Lao Cao beat Ma Chao and Han Sui, Xun Yu had not left Lao Cao's camp, so he was very clear about some things at that time. Now seeing Lu Ren asking, Xun Yu responded: "From a military point of view, at that time, Cao Mengde wanted to take Hanzhong and then enter Shuzhong, and at this time, if he didn't first settle the Ma Han who was divided into Xiliang, then he would have too many worries when he was fighting; If it is from the side of government politics...... The Ma Han forces were divided into Xiliang, and they did not obey the imperial edict, although they were at peace with them, but this hidden danger of not obeying the imperial edict must also be removed, and Liangzhou could not be controlled by them, which was too dangerous. ”

Lu Ren nodded. Since Xun Yu thinks like this, then Lu Ren's next words are easier to say. As a person with relevant historical materials, although Lu Ren has no direct understanding of Ma Chao, he can also judge what kind of plans Ma Chao should have in his heart through these historical materials.

To tell the truth, the second half of Ma Chao's letter has already made Lu Ren vigilant. What is disappointed in Liu Bei, what does he want to prosper the Han family, to put it bluntly, Ma Chao just wants to take down Liangzhou by himself, but Ma Chao has no money and food in his hands, and he has no conditions to do this. In the letter, Ma Chao has actually expressed that he wants to betray Liu Bei, find Lu Ren, the boss who seems to be relatively stupid, and then borrow the funds of "Boss Lu" to fight his Ma Chao's territory.

But still with that sentence, Ma Chao didn't know if he was really stupid, or he was confused by Lu Ren's previous stupid actions, thinking that Lu Ren was a fool who wanted to revive the Han family wholeheartedly. thought that as long as he said that he wanted to revive the Han Dynasty and drove out the foreign criminals, Lu Ren would happily send money, food and weapons to fund him.

Shaking his head and organizing his words again, Lu Ren said to Xun Yu Zhengse: "This Ma Mengqi is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Looking at what he has been doing, I think he just wants to return to Liangzhou and continue the days when their Ma clan was separated from Xiliang. As for what allegiance to the Han family...... Hum! Maybe there will be a little bit of it on the surface, but what it will actually be, it's not easy to say. ”

Xun Yu also nodded: "The old man also thinks the same. The Xiliang Ma clan has been in Liangzhou for a long time, and how can they be willing to give up after Cao Mengde captured Liangzhou? And Ma Chao first voted for Zhang Lu after he was poor, but he abandoned Zhang Lu and switched to Liu Bei, which was nothing more than wanting to borrow Liu Bei's hand to go back to Liangzhou. The funny thing is that Liu Bei is the hero of the world, where can Ma Chao's thoughts be hidden from Liu Bei? ”

Lu Ren raised his eyebrows, and said in his heart that it would be great if you Xun Yu could understand these things by yourself, and it would save me from having to bother to make up explanations to you.

Xun Yu glanced at the letter on the table again, and asked with a frown: "Yihao, how are you going to reply to Ma Chao?" ”

Lu Ren said: "Xun Gong, what do you think? ”

Xun Yu said: "Reject him directly." Of course, in your reply, it is better to persuade you with good words, so as to save this horse from doing something unwise in his heart. Liu Bei and Cao Pi also spent a lot of effort to have the current good pattern, as long as there are no accidents, once a good fighter appears, I believe that the Western Regions Alliance can be completely driven out of the Liangzhou territory under the first war. If Ma Chao makes something happen at this time, Liu Bei will be in a mess if he doesn't do it well, and if Liu Bei is in a mess, what will happen to the current good battle situation. ”

Lu Ren nodded at first, but immediately shook his head again. Seeing that Xun Yu was puzzled, Lu Ren explained: "What I'm more worried about is that after this Ma Chao sees that his request for help is fruitless, he may have some obsessions in his heart. And once people have an obsession in their hearts, they will do something crazy if they don't do it well. ”

Xun Yu frowned: "Yihao, what do you mean?" ”

Lu Ren said: "The Ma clan has been in Xiliang for a long time, not to mention the Qianghu tribe, and some of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions should also have a lot of contacts. So I think if Ma Chao is not hanged, after Ma Chao is obsessed, will he go to the extreme to secretly unite with those countries in the Western Regions? Xun Yu, don't think I'm alarmist, I went to Liangzhou once before, and I know some things more or less, so I dare to say that Ma Chao has this connection and this ability. ”

Xun Yu's brows suddenly wrinkled a little more: "If it is really as Yihao said, then this matter really can't be ended like this...... But Yihao, even if you promised Ma Chao, the money, food, and materials you promised him could be smoothly sent from Liu Bei and Cao Pi's territory and handed over to him? ”

Lu Ren spread his hands: "Don't doubt this, we can really send it over." ”

This is not Lu Ren's big words. In fact, after the war in Liangzhou, how much money, food and materials did Lu Ren give to Liu Bei and Lao Cao Xiaocao? Therefore, Lu Ren's things have to be sent to the front line, in modern terms, it is "inspection-free and direct", and then with a little manipulation in this, Ma Chao can get it smoothly.

This Xun Yu didn't say anything after listening to Lu Ren's words, and lowered his head and began to calculate. Lu Ren, on the other hand, thought of something after thinking about it for a while, turned around and looked at the map hanging on the wall, and then scratched his finger on the map.

Neither of them spoke, so the room became very quiet. Finally, after a long time, Lu Ren's hand clicked heavily on the map, and then there was a long sigh: "No, it's too far!" Ma Chao is not stupid, if he really asks him to take this road, he will only start to divide halfway on the road at most, wouldn't that be a return to his wishes!? ”

Xun Yu said: "Yihao, what do you think? ”

Lu Ren said: "I want Ma Chao to fight all the way west to this place." ”

Pointing to the map. What Lu Ren was referring to was already the western region of Xinjiang in later generations, but at that time, it was the Western Regions, and it was not much in the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Xun Yu looked at the place Lu Ren was pointing at and shook his head: "Unrealistic!" Ma Chao intends to regain control of Liangzhou, and you want him to leave Liangzhou and march westward, where will Ma Chao do it? Ma Chao took you for a fool, but you can't take Ma Chao for a fool, right? When he regains control of Liangzhou, who is he willing to listen to? ”

Lu Ren shrugged: "So I didn't think about it anymore, but I had to think of a different way......

After speaking, Lu Ren began to check the map again. This time, Lu Ren watched it for a long, long time, and Xun Yu didn't bother. I don't know how long it took for Lu Ren to knock on the table and say to himself: "Do you want me to change my thinking, don't stick to the war in Xiliang and Ma Chao's influence in Liangzhou...... I just don't know if this guy will go along my train of thought. ”

Xun Yu blinked and asked, "Yihao, what do you think?" ”

Lu Ren said: "Liangzhou is too far away, I can't take care of anything, if I really fund Ma Chao, this is also a capital that he can turn against me at any time." In other words, this guy is out of my control, and it's not easy for me to do things. ”

Xun Yu nodded: "This is natural." When you get all the money, food and materials you need, who cares what you say? ”

Lu Ren's finger went all the way south on the map, and then he drew a semicircle, which looked like a reverse "D" shape, and then Lu Ren fell into deep thought again. Although Lu Ren didn't speak, Xun Yu had already understood some of Lu Ren's ways of thinking over the years, so he realized something after seeing the anti-"D" drawn by Lu Ren, and then fell into contemplation with Lu Ren.

After a long time, Xun Yu suddenly said to Lu Ren: "Yihao, see if you can ...... like this."

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(Nanchang has been raining heavily in the past few days, and the poor bottle still wants to go to Jingdong Water Park to play in the hot weather of the autumn tiger.) For the bottle, if you don't do these three things in Nanchang in the summer, this summer is equivalent to nothing: swimming, supper, crayfish, hiding in an air-conditioned café to watch the big white legs...... ）